Grocery Report/Menu Plan | Essential Shopping

On Saturdays, I share my menu plan for the upcoming week along with a photo of my groceries and a tally of my spending. My goal is to spend $100/week for our food, toiletries, and cleaning products. I’m currently in the midst of trying to buy more local, sustainably-produced food while sticking to my budget. Can it be done? I don’t know, but I’m going to try, and I’ll share what I learn as I go along.

As you know, I spent a good pile of money at the grocery store last week, so I didn’t do a full-blown trip this week…just a stop at Aldi for some essentials.

Ok, so, the thin mint cookies there weren’t exactly a necessity. But they ARE really yummy. In fact, we ate them side by side with a real Girl Scout Thin Mint cookie, and we decided that the Aldi ones better.

Plus, the Aldi version is around $1.50/package, so there’s that. You could buy cookies, donate to the girl scouts if you wish, and still be money ahead!

(of course, these aren’t particularly healthy, but the ingredients are no worse than the Girl Scout cookies…I checked. 🙂 )

I bought a few other things that aren’t in the picture due to my own oversight…more produce, some cheese, and a box of cereal.

I spent $49.89.

Breakfasts this week will be cereal, granola, yogurt, toast, eggs, and fruit. Plus the occasional yogurt smoothie if I feel inspired.

Lunches (we flip-flop our lunch and dinnertimes because of Mr. FG’s work schedule) will be comprised of sandwiches made with whole wheat bread, homemade yogurt, yogurt smoothies, cottage cheese, fruit, raw veggies, nuts, cheese, and leftovers as necessary.

And here’s what we’re eating for the main meal of the day (we eat this at lunchtime during the week and at night on the weekends.)

Saturday

• Takeout Date Night for Mr. FG and me, something simple for the kids

Sunday

• French Toast
• OJ
• fried eggs

Monday

• Chicken Tortellini Salad
• garlic breadsticks

Tuesday

• Clam Chowder (bumped from last week)
• Whole Wheat Rolls
• green salad

Wednesday

• Pulled Chicken Sandwiches
• fruit salad
• broccoli

Thursday

• Thanksgiving! I’m sure you can guess what my contribution to the meal is. 😉
  

Friday

• Homemade pizza

Have a lurvely weekend!

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